The ‘experts’ whom Russia’s FSB uses for political trials in occupied Crimea are notoriously lacking in any specialist knowledge and/or incompetent. Andrei Rostislavovich Nikiforov is, however, in a category of his own. This former Ukrainian citizen, who helped Russia annex Crimea and whose ‘expert assessment’ was recently used to jail lawyer Emil Kurbedinov for an innocuous Facebook post from 2013 has himself used his Facebook account to call for all ‘rabid Ukrainians to be killed, like rabid dogs’, with others needing to “be treated”.
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Halya Coynash: ‘Expert’ who helped to jail Kurbedinov calls for `rabid Ukrainians to be killed`
Emil Kurbedinov, the lawyer and human rights defender, talks on the phone to his colleague Edem Semedlyaev on Oct. 13, 2016 in front of the Kyiv district court house in Simferopol, Crimea.
